GOP Lawmakers in Both Chambers Seek to Shift Burden of Breaking Stalemate With Democrats

WASHINGTON—House and Senate Republicans sought Tuesday to shift responsibility to the other chamber to break an ongoing stalemate with Democrats over immigration policy, displaying intraparty tensions just weeks after assuming full control of Congress.

The fight could jeopardize funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which expires in less than three weeks. Republicans had hoped to use a bill extending the agency’s funding to thwart President Barack Obama’s executive action giving millions of illegal immigrants new...

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